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The '''Bay Trading Company Group''' is a Kiravian diversified multinational {{wp|Concern (business)|trading concern}} headquartered in [[Primóra]], [[Hanoram]]. Originally formed by a company of Primóra-based merchants to engage in the spice trade, the Bay Trading Company expanded into the dealing of a wide range of commodities between Kiravia, its colonies, and foreign ports across Audonia, Punth, [[Crona]], Polynesia, and Sarpedon. The mercantile activities of the Bay Trading Company often went hand-in-hand with Kiravian overseas colonial expansion. Today the BTC Group is a massive conglomerate with numerous subsidiaries and affiliates active across such diverse sectors as wholesale and retail trade (including e-commerce), international shipping, food and beverages (particularly condiments), an extensive portfolio of consumer brands, several restaurant chains, and finance. | The '''Bay Trading Company Group''' is a Kiravian diversified multinational {{wp|Concern (business)|trading concern}} headquartered in [[Primóra]], [[Hanoram]]. Originally formed by a company of Primóra-based merchants to engage in the {{wp|spice trade}}, the Bay Trading Company expanded into the dealing of a wide range of commodities between Kiravia, its colonies, and foreign ports across Audonia, Punth, [[Crona]], Polynesia, and Sarpedon. The mercantile activities of the Bay Trading Company often went hand-in-hand with Kiravian overseas colonial expansion. Today the BTC Group is a massive conglomerate with numerous subsidiaries and affiliates active across such diverse sectors as wholesale and retail trade (including e-commerce), international shipping, food and beverages (particularly condiments), an extensive portfolio of consumer brands, several restaurant chains, and finance. | ||
As the Kirosocialist Party surged in the polls and the spectre of a socialist government loomed during the [DECADE], BTC executives fully expected their company to be a key target of socialist redistributive plans and prepared by leveraging their connexions through Kiravian business communities in countries like [[Caphiria]] and [Arab country here] to move company assets into safe hands. When the Socialist Party did come to power, BTC was marked for nationalisation as expected, prompting much of they company's key personnel to relocate to [[Portmór]], [[Æonara]] under the protection of the Federalist government-in-exile there. | As the [[Kirosocialist Party]] surged in the polls and the spectre of a socialist government loomed during the [DECADE], BTC executives fully expected their company to be a key target of socialist redistributive plans and prepared by leveraging their connexions through Kiravian business communities in countries like [[Caphiria]] and [Arab country here] to move company assets into safe hands. When the Socialist Party did come to power, BTC was marked for nationalisation as expected, prompting much of they company's key personnel to relocate to [[Portmór]], [[Æonara]] under the protection of the Federalist government-in-exile there. | ||
Bay Trading Company has a bitter historical rivalry with [[KMT Corporation|Kerēgulan Merchants of the Tropics]], which was its leading competitor in the south-hemispheric commodities trade. Even today, the companies continue to compete vigorously in certain sectors (such as food, consumer brands, and global logistics), though the rivalry has lost intensity over time as both companies have diversified into different industries where they do not come into direct competition with one another. | Bay Trading Company has a bitter historical rivalry with [[KMT Corporation|Kerēgulan Merchants of the Tropics]], which was its leading competitor in the south-hemispheric commodities trade. Even today, the companies continue to compete vigorously in certain sectors (such as food, consumer brands, and global logistics), though the rivalry has lost intensity over time as both companies have diversified into different industries where they do not come into direct competition with one another. | ||
For most of Kiravian capitalist history, BTC was the largest private Kiravian company based outside of [[Valēka]], though it lost this status after Kirosocialism. It has long been an important pillar of the Primóra municipal economy, as the city's largest private for-profit employer and a major contributor to charitable | For most of Kiravian capitalist history, BTC was the largest private Kiravian company based outside of [[Valēka]], though it lost this status after Kirosocialism. It has long been an important pillar of the Primóra municipal economy, as the city's largest private for-profit employer and a major contributor to charitable initiatives and public-private partnerships in the Primóra metropolitan area. The state of Hanoram has been accused of giving preferential treatment to the group and its subsidiaries, including numerous sweetheart deals and tax loopholes. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||